An Ancient-Contemporary Maker | Elena Vasilantonaki | Episode 592
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
For the last nine years, Elena Vasilantonaki has been making with clay, inspired by her need to express herself, to achieve communication, and to present her view of the human nature to others. Born in 1977 in Athens Greece, Elena moved to over six cities by the age of eighteen. After completing her BA in English Literature at the University of Athens, Elena taught at a local school for a few years until she stopped to become a full time mother. During that period Elena started taking painting lessons as a creative outlet. In 2010 Elena met with neighbor and talented English potter, Janet Lines who introduces Elena to clay and the ancient firing techniques of raku and pit firing. In 2016 Elena turns her home basement into her studio while still taking pottery classes. In 2018 Elena completes a one year seminar on ceramics technology at Iridanos pottery school by acclaimed potter Menandros Papadopoulos. She has been working out of her studio ever since.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:01.9 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.4 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.7 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.1 | It is so fun to be here with you in episode number 592 of the Potter's cast. It's a Thursday episode, which means it's an |
| 0:25.8 | even episode 92. What? Anyhow, I am really excited that we are chasing down the 600th episode of the Potter's cast. And I would be so stoked to hear from you |
| 0:42.1 | about what the Potter's cast has meant for you. I'd like for you to go to the show notes page |
| 0:47.9 | and there is a little place that you can go to as you scroll down a little bit. It'll say, |
| 0:53.7 | you know, celebrate episode |
| 0:54.9 | 600, and then it says send a voice message to Paul Blaze, and then it will have a little |
| 1:02.5 | button that says, start recording, you hit that, and then you can record, you can listen, |
| 1:07.2 | and then you can send it over. You't have to leave your your email address with that |
| 1:12.7 | particular service that has nothing to do with me in terms of like like i don't keep those email |
| 1:18.5 | addresses that are through that's through that particular link so don't feel like you need to |
| 1:23.0 | leave any emails in the process of doing that now you can if, if you'd like to, record your email address, |
| 1:30.4 | and then that way only I will get it and speak pipe won't get it if you don't feel comfortable |
| 1:35.0 | doing that. I totally get that. But anyhow, my point is that I would love to hear from me. |
| 1:41.0 | Now, here's what I'm looking for is, is one, a little bit of your story |
| 1:46.2 | and then a little bit of how the Potter's cast has interacted with your story and encouraged |
| 1:53.1 | your story. So that's it. Yeah, right there. You can just do that over there on the show notes page. |
| 1:59.6 | And I would love to hear that. And then we will |
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